Apparently my grandmother was placed on a new medication last week. The new medication was supposed to help her extreme agitation, but seems to have had an unfortunate side effect. She seems to have had serious memory loss. Late last week, she began calling various people. She called my mother over 50 times over the course of the weekend. Apparently she had also been calling other people as well, at least one person she called she asked to have Bill (my grandfather who has been dead for three years) call her. She also seems to have forgotten exactly how my grandfather died (she thought he just died one day rather than recalling his stroke, extended hospitalization and eventual death from pneumonia). She also managed to call up a mover that she found in the newspaper and attempted to move out of her assisted living facility and back to her home. Luckily that was prevented. They've removed her from her medication, but that has only led to an increase in her anxiety (hard to believe it is even possible).

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Apparently, if you have too many entries in an InnoDB table (say about 36 megarecords), you can't clear the table with a simple "DELETE FROM table" statement. At least under the default configuration, it seems like MySQL will run out of entries in its lock table. It seems silly. I ended up dropping the table and recreating it instead. It actually took less time to drop the table than it did to fail to delete all the entries from it.

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